Insole-reinforcing machine.



' INS OLE REINFORGING MACHINE.

I APPLICATION FILED DEC. 23, 1907. RELNEWBD APR. 14, 1909. 940,690.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

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WILLIAM H. HOOPER, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THOMAS (jiJPLANT, 0F

msorn-nnmroncme MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Patented Nov. 23,1909.

Application filed December 23,1907, Serial No. 407,639. Renewed April 14, 1909. Serial No. 489,848.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, WILLIAM H. Hoornn, rod 9 and the well understood treadle concoun-ty of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, and a citizen of the United States, have invented an Improvement in Insole-Reinforcing Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

The invention to be hereinafter described relates to boot and shoe making machines and more particularly to machines for applying a reinforcing material to insoles. The object of the present invention is to provide a machine for this'general purpose wherein a reinforcing material may be tucked into the channel formed by an upwardly and outwardly turned channel lip, the projecting edges of such fabricbe trimmed at the upper portion of the lip, and the marginal portion of the sole outside the channel lip be consolidated, all of which and other objects will be best made clear from the following description in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein one form or embodiment of the invention is presented for illustrative purposes.

In the drawingss-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine showing the invention embodied therein. Fig. 2 is a detached detail, partly in section showing the relation of the operating tools and their action upon the the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view on line 44, Fig. 1.

In the embodiment of the present invention selected for disclosure herein, the column 1 carries a suitable head 2, in which isv mounted for vertical movement the work supporting slide 3, Fig. 1. his work supporting slide 3 has a suitable bearing for the work supporting shaft 4, carrying at its outer end the work supporting and feeding wheel 5.

The work supporting slide is supported by a spring 6, which bears. against said slide at its upper end and at its from beneath lower end is seated uponjan adjusting screw 7, tapped into a lug. 8 on the column.

rod 9, which extends upward through said work. Fig. 3 is a face or front view of,

This vscrew is madetubular to receive the tradle at ts upper end w wheel5 for the introduction nection (not shown) furnish means for depressing the work supporting and feeding 'of the work, said spring thereafter lifting said work supporting and feeding wheel and its Work to hold the latter firmly in position. 1 i

The work supporting shaft 4 at its inner end is operated by a connection 10 of any construction that will permit said des red shaft to be moved vertically by and with the work supporting and feeding wheel I the work supporting slid g. This treadle without losing its operative connection substantially in suitable The driv- Horton with the driving shaft 11, alined therewith and turnin hearings in the machine hea ing shaft 11 is provided with a or other suitable clutch device 12'whichis operated by a radially extended arm; l3'

0inted to an eccentric rod lt, the eccentric 16 of which is'fast upon the mam driving shaft 15 of the machine, said drivingshaft being carried bysuitable bearings 17 upon the machine head 2 and driven by the belt pulley- 18 connected with any suitable source of power,- Rotation of the main shaft 15 through the eccentric 16 and clutch device 12 will impart to the driving shaft-11, and, consequently, to the work supporting and feeding wheel 5, a step-by-step rotutive movement. a Supported in a bearing 19 on the machine head is the obliquely disposed shaft 20 carrying at its upper end the consolidating or compression wvheel 21, and at its lower end the beveled. gear 22 which meshes with a correspondingly beveled gear 23 fast on the driving shaft 11. From the construction thus far described,- it will be evident 'that rota tive step-by-step movement imparted to the driving shaft 11 and work supporting and feed-- ing wheel 5 will likewise be imparted to the consolidating and compressionwheel 21. and a sole disposed between the work supporting and feeding wheel 5 and the consolidating andcompressing wheel 21 will be given corresponding step-by-step movement.

Mounted upon a shaft or pin 24 carried in suitable bearings upon the machine head 2 is the tucking tool actuator comprising the arms 25 which carry between them at their lower portion the tucking .tool .26, so dis;

reciprocating movement in a diagonal dif 'sv z 'iup- 24, the 10 said knife actuator being link 28 t0 a knife carrying slide 29-; 2

o I roee tlngf e? co loosen g the propel V I movement 1) p al iiiie'd kni f e block car; 15 5 e dih qxtend di e teitem e emtl' l phvioiisly' o f t i ine t he tuolging tooi 26 and the ni i r e ee i qlio long 7O 'R-efeifing R 2, the inso1e S is shownv ib r Pj eti nedbetwee the Work s ppitfig eri'd 'iieedi'iig tvhee'l 5 and the i and compressing Wheel 21,

e tool 26 andthe knife 37 reotively aotiii g upon the reinforcingrma hQgllQtBdithilhw'fiS thertuckingtool ififiiioves v .rward in an oblique direction to force the rein forcing materiel down into the .fbottlom .1

'fe' 37 jactsgupon any pro H ereinforci/n'gmaterial! p of th hannei lip, severing g e d I gainsflthe stationary:

@1122 block 51 The. inclined or of -pe''lilief importance in tucking the rein: 1; .5

ng a ohannelj'lip HPWfiIdi-il itowerd the; eSOIeQ edge, she: v the-ohannelthusgformed,-; liqi the sin fa'ce ofthe sole.

S nge uppn;:- the reinforcing in 21 1 5 g tQQl 26*iS lI1' I IOL sense 1 has noeflejctnpontheIalf @th I'ftha- ItO lcairy thetv -f a "r ialjinto the iehannellon. the-ii 0 f1 hennel 11p 11d canse-titito eo I h I at eiriel ofjthe 'nsole c emp for; the lip;

oi d; the Wor Supp 1 an the ,I QHSDIiQatrlfi tfii g lyenxaste noyei nt; and the insoles partakes oti this v movement, :B'ea 1: L ea V O I -W 1l;d w-Stepwdf the-insole; and

it tucki $99126 andf tween oethe p ref (1 L 2o trimming knife, a stationary knife block made within the skill of the artisan without nally to the surface of the insole, as such forms the subject matter of an application of Charles I. Stanbon, Ser. N 0'. 350,673, liledJanuai-y 3, 1907, but.

\Vhat is claimed is l. in a machine of the character described, the combination of a work supporting and feed ing wheel, a tucking tool, means to move it in a plane diagonal to the surface of the work to tuck the material into thechannel formed by a lip turned upward'and toward the sole edge, upon the sole edge outside the channel lip, a

associated therewith, and means for rotating the supporting and feed ng wheel and the compression wheel.

2. In an insole reinforcing machine, the

combination of a work supporting and feeding wheel, a tucking tool, means, to move said tool in a plane diagonal to the surface of the insole to tuck reinforcing material into the channel formed by a lip turned upward and outward, a trimming knife disposed above the tuckingtool in the'vertical plane thereof, and means for reciprocating said knife, said tucking tool and trimming knife being simultaneously operative upon corresponding transverse portions of the reinforcing material.

3. In an insole reinforcing machine, the combination of a work supporting and feeding wheel, means for operatin the said wheel step-by-step, a tucking too means to move said tool in a plane diagonal to the surface of the insole to tuck reinforcing material into the channel formed by a lip turned upward and outward, a trimming knife disposed above the tucking tool in the vertical plane thereof, and means for reciprocating said knife, saidtucking tool and trimming knife being operative upon corresponding transverse portions of the reinforcing material during the intervals between the step movements. 4. In an insole reinforcingmachine, the combination of a work supporting and feeding wheel, means foroperating said wheel and feeding the work step-by-step, a tucking tool, means to move said tool in a plane diagonal to the surface of the insole to tuck reinforcing material into the channel formed by alip turned upward and toward the solo edge, a trimming knife disposed above the tucking tool',a stationary knife block. and means for reciprocating the trimming knife. said tucking tool and trin'uning knife acting substantially simultaneously upon correa compressing wheel acting,

- wheel, a trimming knife,

a knife arranged sponding transverse portions of the reinforcing material durin' the intervals between step movements of the work.

5. In an insole reinforcingmachine, the

combination of Work feeding means and operating devices'therefor, a tucking tool, means for moving it in a plane diagonal to the surface of the sole to tuckthe material into the channel formed by a lip turned upward and toward the sole edge, a trimming knife and its ca'rrier,-ineans for sliding said carrier, and astationary knife block co-acting with the sliding kliife,said tucking tool tuck and trim the the same transverse ortion.

(5. In an insole reinforcing machine, the combination of a avork feeding wheel and a consolidating wheel acting on the-margin of the sole and devices for giving them step-by step movement, a tucking tool, a-Itucking tool actuator for moving said tool in a direction diagonal to the surface of the sole to tuck the material into a channel formed by a lip turned upward and outward, a trimming knife arranged'above the tucking tool in a vertical plane thereof, and means for operating the trimming knife, said; tucking tool and trimming knife acting conjoin-tly to reinforcing material atand trimming knife acting upon the reinforcing material durin its intervalsof rest. 7. In an insole rein orcing machine, the combination of a work supporting and feeding wheel, a'consolidating wheel for acting along the marginal portion of the sole and having a recessed face, a stationaryknife block supported in the recessed face of said and means to reciprocate it for co-actionwith said stationary knife block to trim the edge of the reinforcing material along the upper portion of the channel lip. A i

8. In an insole reinforcing machine, the

combination of a work support, atuckingtool, a tucking toolactuator comprising arms 25 by which the tucking tool is held, a knife carrier disposed between the arms of the tucking tool actuator and provided with above the tucking tool, and means for operating the actuator and knife carrier. i

9; An insole reinforcing machine. comprising in combination, a work support, a tuckin tool, a tucking tool actuator to move the tudlting tool in a direction oblique to the surface of the insole to carry the roinfoiring material into the channel formed by a lip turned npwai'd'and outward; a trimming knife carrier. :1 trimming knife mounted thereon above the tucking tool, said tucking lool actuator and trimming knife carrier being relatively constructed aml arranged to cause the lurking looland trimming knifev to act upon the reinforcing material in the same transverse plane;

It). An insole relnl' )rci1|g,nfachiue romprising in combination, a work support, a

tucking tool, a tucking tool actuator to move the tucking tool in a direction oblique to the surface of the insole to carry the reinforcing materialinto the channel formed by a 1i p turned upward and outward, said actuatoi' including two supporting arms between which the tucking tool is held, a. knife car- 10 tool, and means tomove said knife.

rier disposed between said supporting arms, a kmfe mounted thereon above the tucking held, a sliding knife carrier disposed between the arms of the tucking tool actuator and provided with a knife arranged above the tucking tool, means for operating the actuator and knife carrier, and means for varying the path of movement of said tucking tool and knife carrier.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. HO OPER. \Vitnesses:

T. A. TERRELL, ROSWELL F. HATCH. 

